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<item><title>IBM Woos Developers With Cloud Offerings</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:37:01 -0500</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[The new cloud services are intended to help organizations both manage software assets while also driving down development costs.<br/>   -  IBM on Friday unveiled two new cloud-based services aimed at software developers looking to build applications in the cloud.
IBM Rational Software Delivery Services for Cloud Computing consists of application lifecycle management tools made available as cloud services so that developers, partners a...]]></description>
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<item><title>IBM Unveils Government IT Framework</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:20:21 -0500</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[IBM is hoping to expand its relationship with 'non-traditional' partners that don't typically bid on government deals.<br/>   -  VARs and ISVs looking to enter or expand their presence in the government solutions marketplace now have an industry-specific IBM platform for building and deploying an array of public sector applications. On Oct. 30, Big Blue released its Government Industry Framework, a combination of software and...]]></description>
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<item><title>AmberPoint Offers Tips for Navigating Big Blue</title>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:52:24 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[During Channel Insiders recent interview with WebSphere General Manager Craig Hayman, he told us IBM tapped a group of a select software partners to provide feedback and build out products that enhanced WebSphere Version 7.<br/>   -  During Channel Insiders recent interview with WebSphere General Manager Craig Hayman, he told us IBM tapped a group of a select software partners to provide feedback and build out products that enhanced WebSphere Version 7. AmberPoint was one of the companies on Haymans very short list. In this Q am...]]></description>
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<item><title>Dassault to Acquire IBM PLM Operation for $600M</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:51:05 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[As part of the deal, Dassault Systemes gets customer contracts and related assets. Plus, the French technology company will become an IBM Global Alliance Partner.<br/>   -  Dassault Systèmes has agreed to buy a portion of IBMs
sales and client support service for its product lifecycle management software in
a deal valued at $600 million in cash. 

The deal includes the PLM software portfolio, customer contracts and related
assets. It marks the biggest such deal in...]]></description>
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<item><title>IBM Trots Out Raft of Midmarket Offerings</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:17:37 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Spanning across Big Blues software portfolio, the solutions have been tested to ensure they are simple for midsize companies to install and manage, priced affordably and attached to trained IBM business partners to resell, deploy and add services.<br/>   -  In its continued quest to gain relevance among midmarket customers,
IBM this week took the wraps off a handful of new solutions aimed at
companies with between 100 and 1,000 employees.
The offerings, which span across Big Blues software portfolio, have
been tested to ensure they are simple for m...]]></description>
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<item><title>IBM Executive on Leave After Insider Trading Arrest</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:36:30 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Robert Moffat, senior vice president and head of IBM's Systems and Technology Group is being charged with passing on insider information about IBM, Sun Microsystems and AMD to a hedge fund. IBM has placed Moffat, who has been with IBM since 1978, on a leave of absence.<br/>   -  NEW YORK (Reuters) - IBM placed senior executive Robert Moffat on leave of absence after he was arrested in the largest ever hedge fund insider-trading scheme.

Moffat, senior vice president and head of International Business Machines Corp.'s systems and technology group, is being charged with pas...]]></description>
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<item><title>IBM Global Financing Offers Credit Deals</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:45:35 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[IBM Global Financing is offering two new credit deals to qualified channel partners and end customers -- a 90-day deferred payment and a 0 percent financing offer for IBM software purchases.<br/>   -  
IBM Global Financing has expanded its credit offers with a 90-day deferred payment and a 0 percent financing offer for
IBM software purchases an offer that comes just as overall credit markets may be starting to free up again.

The financing arm of technology giant
IBM says that the 90-day pay...]]></description>
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<item><title>IBM Quarter Shows Higher Net Income, but No Technology Spending Rebound</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:29:00 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[IBM saw 14 percent higher net income in its third quarter, but executives stopped short of saying that corporations were returning to spending on technology. Rather, the overall economic environment has improved due to better access to credit.<br/>   -  IBM (NYSE: IBM) posted third quarter net income of $3.2 billion on
total revenues of $23.6 billion.   Revenues climbed by 1 percent
sequentially and increased 7 percent from the same period a year ago,
while net income climbed by 14 percent.

CFO Mark Loughridge told analysts during a conferenc...]]></description>
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<item><title>IBM Quarterly Results Due amid Cautious Hope for Recovery</title>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:27:42 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[At least one analyst firm has raised its forecast for IBM's (NYSE: IBM) third-quarter results. Currency and cost-cutting initiatives are weighing in favor of IBM.<br/>   -  When IBM (NYSE: IBM) announces its third-quarter results today after market close, they will arrive in a market that is cautiously hoping that the positive signs it has seen recently are hinting of more good news to come.  And analysts have been fueling that cautious optimism.

For example, this m...]]></description>
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<item><title>WebSphere Upgrade Benefits IBM Partners</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:08:03 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[The major overhaul includes upgraded features across WebSpheres strategy, business process management (BPM) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) products.<br/>   -  Big Blues major refresh of WebSphere aims to drive business agility for customers and partners. The Version 7 release, available now, includes upgrades to all flagship products under the WebSphere umbrella, including improved integration tools designed to help partners better meet customer demand fo...]]></description>
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<item><title>IBM Targets Google With Online Email</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:45:53 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[With the new LotusLive iNotes, IBM will try to capitalize on the damage that outages have caused to Google Apps over the past year. Last month millions of business users could not access email for almost two hours.<br/>   -  (Reuters) - IBM is introducing an inexpensive Web-based corporate email service that will compete with Google Inc's Google Apps, which has recently suffered several high-profile outages.

International Business Machines Corp will likely try to capitalize on the damage that those outages have cause...]]></description>
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<item><title>i3, Datatrend Team for Packaged IBM Solution</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:19:46 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Two IBM business partners collaborate to develop a network management and monitoring solution that solution providers can use in Tivoli deployments and managed services engagements.<br/>   -  i3 Software and Datatrend today announced they will provide joint network
management and monitoring solutions.   Together, the two companies, both IBM
reseller partners, will provide a packaged IBM
BladeCenter and Tivoli solution to
the telecommunications, banking and retail industries.
The rel...]]></description>
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<item><title>IBM Targets BI Midmarket</title>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 08:52:28 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[IBM Cognos Express is an all-in-one business intelligence and planning solution built and priced for midsized clients that consists of three products -- IBM Cognos Express Reporter, Xcelerator and Advisor -- that can be purchased together or individually.<br/>   -  On Monday IBM will announce its latest set of Express Advantage offerings for the midmarket, via the channel, with the biggest focus on business intelligence. According to the research data, including the mammoth CIO study results Big Blue released last week, BI is hot.

 quot;CIOs are investing i...]]></description>
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<item><title>Solution Providers Transform Retail, E-Commerce</title>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 06:09:10 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[Social networking, 3D presentation applications, customer relationship management and commerce middleware are providing solution providers with the tools to transform the way retailers present their ware to consumers, and provide consumers with more shopping tools and options. Solution providers adept at implementing such interactive retail systems are finding growing opportunity among recession-battered retailers.<br/>   -  Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod, glass armonica, bifocal glasses
and believe it or not the mail order catalog. In his brochure for scientific
and academic books, the Philadelphia
entrepreneur stated, “Those persons who live remote, by sending their orders
and money to B. Franklin, m...]]></description>
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<item><title>IBM Report Finds State of Web Insecurity Unprecedented</title>
<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:49:55 -0400</pubDate>
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<![CDATA[2009 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report finds a 508 percent increase in the number of new malicious Web links discovered in the first half of 2009.<br/>   -  IBM has released results from its X-Force 2009 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report. The report's findings show an unprecedented state of Web insecurity as Web client, server, and content threats converge to create an untenable risk landscape.

According to the report, there has been a 508 percent incre...]]></description>
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